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Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The sum and substance of…Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The summe and substance of…
Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The sum and substance of XV. sermons. Preached by that faithful and painful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of Lawrence Jury, London. They being his last sermons. To which is added a funeral sermon, being the very last sermon he ever preached.Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The summe and substance of XV. sermons. Preached by that faithful and painful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of Lawrence Jury, London. They being his last sermons. To which is added a funerall sermon, being the very last sermon he ever preached.
London: printed by E.G. for J. Rothwell, 1652
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Sermon 6: VI. Sermon At Lawrence Ju•y, London. March 30. 1651.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Before I come to the main doctrines, let me observe something in the passage to it; upon these reasons Paul calls Timothy his son: From the compellation, My son, Observe
1. That Ministers should use loving insinuations towards their hearers,1 to usher in useful instructions.
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Soft words turn away wrath, and hard flints are broken upon soft pillows. This was Pauls practice here and elsewhere▪ he gained their affections, the better to reform their judgements.
2. And then in that he calls him My Son, 1in relation to himself as a father, Observe
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